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ALFRED J. KNIGHT, the Popular Elocutionist. 



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PAGE. PAGE. 

The Fool's Prayer, . . .Aire Monthly i What Time is it ? 25 

Burdock's Goat, Anon 7 The Champion Snorer, . . Anon. ... 27 

The Knight's Toast, . . Anon, 7 Hens.— A Boy's Composition, Anon. 26 

The Baby's Kiss, ..G.R. Emerson. . 9 The Water Mill, . D. C. McCallum 31 

The Aged Stranger, . . Bret Harte . . 1 1 How Sockery Set a Hen, 33 

Memory, James A. Garfield. . . 13 The Closing Scene, T.Buch'n Reid 35 

Golden Grains, " ... 15 The Creed of the Bells, 

The Loss of the Hornet, 17 George W. Bungay 39 

Temperance, Wendell Phillips, . . 19 A Gentleman, 41 

Hamlet's Soliloquy, . . Shakespeare . 21 Snyder's Nose, 43 

A Mysterious Duel, .... Anon 23 Tom. . . Constance Fene??iore Woolson 45 



THE TREASURY. 



The compiler of "The Treasury" does not claim that it is a work upon 
elocution ; it is published more as an incentive to that study, and to create 
a love for elocution as a science. 

Some of the selections within have never before been in print, and all are 
from the compiler's valuable collection and have been read and recited in his 
public entertainments with success: 

One of the most elegant and entertaining accomplishments is to be a good 
reader. To encourage this art, you must first place in the hands of the stu- 
dent something to create a love for it. Our school-books, as a rule, do not 
do this. The selections in The Treasury are calculated to create an interest 
that it is hoped will prove permanent, and make the further study of elocu- 
tion easy and enjoyable. They are the choicest of the choice, and are suitable 
to read at either private or public entertainments. A more valuable collec- 
tion could not be made, even if they were to be bound in Morocco and 
edged with gold. 

Hundreds of people have asked the compiler for some of the inclosed se- 
lections, but until they appeared in The Treasury he had refused to part 
with them for love or money. 



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THE FOOL'S PRAYER. 
From the "Atlantic Monthly. 






The roy.il feast was done; the king 
Sought some new sport to banish care. 

And to his jester cried, " Sir Fool, 
Kneel now, and make for us a prayer !" 

The jester doffed his cap and bells, 
And stood the mocking court before: 

They could not see the bitter smile 
Behind the painted grin he wore. 

He bowed his head, and bent his knee 
>n the monarch's silken stool; 
jading voice arose: " O Lord, 
Be merciful to me, a fool ! 

'No pity, Lord, could change the heart 

m red with wrong to white as wool; 
The rod must heal the sin; but, Lord, 
lie merciful to me, a fool ! 

* 'Tis not by guilt the omvaid sweep 

Of tmth and right, O Lord, we slay; 
'Tis by our follies that so long 

We hold the earth from heaven away. 



" These clumsy feet, still in the mire, 
Go crushing blossoms without end; 

• hard, well-meaning hands we thrust 
A nong the heart strings of a friend. 

''The ill-timed truth we might have kept — - 
Who knows how sharp it piened an I 
stung ? 
The word we had not sense to say — 
Who knows how grandly it had rung? 

•'Our faults no tenderness should ask. 
The chastening stripes must cleanse 
them all; • 
But for our blunders— oh, in shame 
Before the eyes of Heaven we fall. 

" Earth bears no balsam for mistakes; 

Men crown the knave, and scourge the 
tool 
That did his will; but Thou, O Lord, 
Be merciful to me, a fool ! " 

The room was hushed; in silence r 
The king, and sought his gardens 

And walked apart, and murmured low: 
" Be merciful to me, a fool ! " 



BURDOCK'S G-OAT. 



AXON. 



Last Monday afternoon the eleven young Boblink boys caught an enor- 
£gygoat — of the masculine gender — turned him loose in Burdock's 

garden, and then went home and flattened their eleven little i 
:he back windows, to watch for coming events. Jk-fore his goatship had been 
three minutes in that garden, he had managed to make himself perfectly at 
He had pulled down the clothes-line, devoured two lace under- 






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and a striped stocking belonging to Mrs. Burdock, and was bi 

1 in sampling one of Burdock's shirts, when the servant g 
rushing from the house with a basket of clothes to hang up. "Th 
preserve us! " she exclaimed, coming to a dead halt as she caught sight ol 
the shaggy visitor. -ShewlShew! Shew thee, ye crumpled horned, 1. 
thiel ye! shouted the girl, setting down the basket, taking her skirts in' I 
hands and shaking them violently toward the intruder, who was calmly munch- 
away at the shirt. Then the goat, who evidently considered her actions 
in the light of a challenge, suddenly dropped his wicked old head and 
at her with the force ofan Erie locomotive, and just one minute later that 
had turned a back somersault over the clothes-basket and was craw 
y on her hands and knees in search of a place to die, accompanied by 
'. who was butting Iter most unmercifully every third second, It is likely 
I he would have kept on butting her for the next two weeks, if .Airs. Bur- 
k, who had been a witness of the unfortunate affair, had not hurried to 
rescue, armed with the family poker. -Merciful goodness, Anna 1 do 
get up on your feet," she exclaimed, aiming a blow at the beasts head suf 
nt to jolt the tower of Babel, and landing it firmly upon the unfortunate^ 
-a. It was not repeated, owing to the goats suddenly rising up on his 
: lect, waltzing toward her and striking her in the small of the back, hard 
ugh to loosen iter fingers. 

When Airs. Burdock returned to her consciousness, she crawled out from 
und the grind-stone and made for the house; stopped only once when the 
i ame after her and butted her head-foremost into the grapc-a: 
e inside the house, the unfortunates sought the solitude of their own 
ind such consolation as they could extract from rubbing an 
while the goat, like Satan in the book of Job, wandered 'round the 
seeking what he might devour, and the eleven little Boblink boys next door 
fairly themselves with pleasure over the performance. 

the time Mr. Burdock had returned home that evening and learned all 
articulars from his arnica soaked « „ up ntar i 

the whole of the last week's washing, half of the ine, and , , u 't 

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•e him there to devour everything ! " he exclaimed, angrily. ' lust be- 

uldn'tgo, and I was , remain there' to be" kil 

'" v -" ai Mr s- Bui tcitedly. "Wouldn't fiddlesticks/' 

irdock, making for the garden followed by the entire fcmtly. 
ut of here, you thief you," he exclaimed, as he came into the garden 
of the shaggy visitor. Tl it off another mouthful of 

asket and regarded him with a mischievous twinkle of his old 
u wont go, hey: well Til show you wheth— ." The sentence 
inished, for just then the goat droppc'd his head on Mr. Burdocks 
and before he could recover his equilibrium he had been butl 
:n times, in seven fresh spots, and he was down on his hands and knees, 
crawling around in a very undignified manner, to the horror of the family' 
and to the infinite glee of the eleven young Boblinks next door. 

■ Look out he don't hurt you," shouted Mrs. Burdock, as the goat sent 
him flying into a sand-pile. When Mr. Burdock had got his bald head out 
of the sand, he tried to catch the beast by the horns, but desisted after 
had lost three front teeth. "Don't make a living show of vourself before the 
neighbors," advised his wife. "Oh, come in, Pa ! come in, and let him L 

?ed his daughter. "Golly, dad, look out, he's comingaga 
son enthusiastically. Mr. Burdock waxed profane, and swore three-story oaths 
m such rapid succession, that an old lady who lived next door shut up the doors 
and windows, and sent the cook out for a missionary. "Run for it. dad ! "ad- 
vised his son. A moment later when the goat's attention semtdta be turned 
away, Mr. Burdock sprang to his feet and followed hisoffsprii n. 

was legging it in superb style, and the chances of his reaching the hou 
1 excellent, when the fragrant brute suddenly clapped on 
gained rapidly, and darting between his legs, capsized him into the ash 
I he family dragged him inside, another candidate for rubbing with an 
and a blessed haven o! i ■ 

ackofthe house has been hermetically sealed, and Burdock r. 
oses extending an invitation to the mili 

a and practice markmanship off of the roof, the onlv - about 

premises: He promises to furnish a live goat for a : "la hand- 

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ANON. 



The feast is o'er : Now brimming wine 
In lordly cup is scon to shine 

Before each eager guest ; 
While silence fills the crowded hall, 
As deep as when the herald's call 

Thrills in the loyal breast. 

Then up arose the noble host, 

And smiling cried : "A toast ! a toast ! 

To all the ladies fair! 
Here l>efore all I pledge the name 

taunton's proud and beauteous damc- 
The Lady Gundamere ! " 

Then to his feet each gallant sprang, 
And joyous was the shout that rang, 

As Stanley gave the word ; 
And every cup was raised on high, 
ceased the loud and gladsome cry 
Till Stanley's voice was heard. 

" Enough, enough ! " he smiling said, 
And lowly bent his haughty head ; 

11 That all may have their due, 
each in turn must play his part, 
And pledge the lady of his heart, 

Tike gallant knight and true ! " 

Then one by one each guest sprang up, 
And drained in turn the brimming cup, 

And named the loved one's name; 
1 each, as hand on high he raised, 
Mis lady's grace or beauty praised, 

Her constancy and fame. 



'Tis now St. Leon's turn to rise ; 

On him arc fixed those countless eyes— 

A gallant knight is he; 
Envied by some, admired by all, 
Far-famed in lady's bower and hall— 

The flower of chivalry. 

St. Leon raised his kindling eye, 
And lifts the sparkling cup on high; 

"I drink to one," he said, 
"Whose image never may depart, 
Deep graven on this grateful heart, 

Till memory is dead. 

To one whose love for me shall last 
When lighter passions long have passed— 

So holy 'tis and true; 
To one whose love had longer dwelt, 
More deeply fixed, more keenly felt, 

Than any pledged by you." 

Each guest upstarted at the word, 

And laid a hand upon his sword, 

With fury-flashing e 

And Stanley said: " We crave the name, 
Proud knight, of this most peerless dame 
Whose love you count so high." 

St. Leon paused, as if he v. 

Not breathe her name in careless mood, 

Thus lightly to another; 
Then lent his noble head, i 
To give that word the revcreno 

And gently said: "My 



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THE BABY'S KISS. 

An incident cf tht Civil War. 

O R. EMEUS ON. 

Rough and ready the troopers ride, 
5tol in holster and sword by side ; 
They have ridden long, they have ridden hard, 
They are travel-stained and battle-scarred: 
The hard ground shakes with their martial tramp, 
And coarse is the laugh of the men of the camp. 

They reached a spot where a mother stands, 
With a baby, shaking its little hands, 
Laughing aloud at the gallant sight 
Of the mounted soldiers fresh from the fight. 
The captain laughs out — " I will give you this, 
A bright piece of gold, your baby to kiss.''' 

"My darling's kisses cannot be sold, 
But gladly he'll kiss a soldier bold." 
He lifts up the babe with a manly grace, 
And covers with kisses its smiling late, 
Its rosy cheeks, and its dimpled charms, 
And it crows with delight in the soldier's arms. 

"Not all for the captain," the troopers call ; 

''The baby, we know, has a kiss ior all." 
To each soldier's breast the baby is pressed 
By the strong, rough men, and kissed and caressed, 
And louder it laughs, and the lady's face 
Wears a mother's smile at the fond embrace. 

"Just such a kiss," cries one warrior grim, 
"When I left my boy, I gave to him." 
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I gave to my girl, as asleep she lay. " 
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ok, " J was \vn ii GRAM 1. " 

BRET II ART J 

•'I was with Grant," the stranger said. 
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For thy feet are weary and sore. " 

"I was with Grant," the stranger said. 
Said the farmer, "Nay, no more, 
I prithee sit at my frugal board, 
And eat of my humble store. 

"How fares my boy, my soldier boy, 
Of the old Ninth Army Corps? 
I warrant he bore him gallantly 
In the smoke and battle's roar ! " 

"I know him not," said the aged man, 
" And as I remarked before, 
1 was with Grant — " "Nay, nay, I know," 
Said the farmer, ''say no more ; 

"He fell in battle — I see, alas! 

Thou'dst smooth these tidings o'er — 
Nay, speak the truth, whatever it be, 
Though it rend my bosom's core. 

"How fell he — with his face to the foe, 
Upholding the flag he bore ? 
O, say not that my boy disgraced 
The uniform that he wore ! " 

"I cannot tell," said the aged man, 
"And should have remarked before, 
That I was with Grant — in Illinois — 
Some three years before the war," 

Then the farmer spake him never a word, 

But beat with his lists full 5 
That aged man, who had worked for Grant 

Some three years before the war. 



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MEMORY— Jam i:s A. GARFIELD. 

The following poem was written by the late President, during his senior y>ar in Williams College^ 
-hortly before nis graduation. It was published in the Williams Quarterly for liarcl 

Viewed in the light of recent events the concluding lines of tne ] oim se-ein sJ I -tie. 

'Tis beauteous night : the stars look brightly down 
Upon the earth, decked in her robe of snow. 

No light gleams at the windows, save my own, 

Which gives its cheer to midnight and to me. 

And now, with noiseless step, sweet memory comes 

And leads me gently through her twilight realms. 

What poet's tuneful lyre has ever sung, 

Or delicatest pencil e'er portrayed 

The enchanted, shadowy land where memory dwells? 

It has its valleys, cheerless, lone, and drear, 

Dark-shaded by the mournful cypress tree ; 

And yet its sun-lit mountain tops are bathed 

In Heaven's own blue. Upon its craggy cliffs, 

Robed in the dreamy light of distant years, 

Are clustered joys serene of other days. 

Upon its gently sloping hillsides bend 

The weeping willows o'er the sacred dust 

Of dear departed ones; yet in that land, 

Where'er our footsteps fall upon the shore, 

They that were sleeping rise from out the dust 

Of death's long, silent years, and round us stand 

As erst they did before the prison tomb 

Received their clay within its voiceless halls. 

The heavens that bend above that land are hung 

With clouds of varied hues. Some dark and chill, 

Surcharged with sorrow, cast their sombre shade 

Upon the sunny, joyous land below. 

Others are floating through the dreamy air, 

White as the falling snow, their margins tinged 

With gold and crimsoned hues; their shadows fall 

Upon the flowery meads and sunny slopes, 

Soft as the shadow of an angel's wing. 

When the rough battle of the day is done, 

And evening's peace falls gently on the heart, 

I bound away, across the noisy ye 



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Unto the utmost verge of memory's land, 
Where earth and sky in dreamy distance meet, 

And memory dim with dark oblivion j< 

Where woke the first remembered sounds that lell 
Upon the ear in childhood's early morn; 
And, wandering thence along the rolling rears, 

• the shadow of my former self 
Gliding from childhood up to man's estate. 
The path of youth winds down through many a vale, 
And on the brink of many a dread abyss, 
From out whose darkness comes no ray of light, 
Save that a phantom dances o'er the gulf 
And beckons toward the verge. Again the path 
Leads o'er the summit where the sunbeams fall ; 
And thus in light and shade, sunshine and gloom, 
Sorrow and joy, this life-path leads along. 



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Heroes did not make our liberties, they but reflected and illustrated them. 

We confront the dangers of suffrage by the blessings of universal educal 

Eternity alone will reveal to the human race its debt of gratitude to the 
Deerless and immortal name of Washington. 

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age rightly the first years of a child's education. 

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of growing up to be an independent man in middle life is a greater. 
. There is deep down in the hearts of the American people a strong and abid- 
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THE LOSS OF THE HORNET. 

Call the watch ! call the watch ! 

f Ho ! the starboard watch ahoy ! " Have you heard 
How a noble ship so trim, like our own, my hearties, here, 

All scudding 'fore the gale, disappeared. 
Where yon southern billows roll o'er their bed so green and clear ? 

Hold the reel ! keep her full ! hold the reel ! 
How she flew athwart the spray, as, shipmates, we do now, 

"lil 1 her twice a hundred fearless hearts of steel 
Felt the whirlwind lift its waters aft, .and plunge her downward bow ! 
Bear a hand ! 

Strike topgallants ! mind your helm ! jump aloft ! 
Twas such a night as this, my lads, a rakish bark was drowned, 

When demons foul, that whisper seamen oft, 
Scooped a tomb amid the flashing surge that never shall be found. 

Square the yards ! a double reef! Hark the blast ! 
O, fiercely has it fallen on the war-ship of the brave, 

When its tempest fury stretched the stately mast 
All along her foamy sides, as they shouted on the wave, 
"Bear a hand ! " 

Call the watch ! call the watch ! 

" Ho ! the larboard watch, ahoy ! " Have you heard 
How a vessel, gay and taut, on the mountains of the sea, 

Went below, with all her warlike crew on board, 
They who battled for the happy, boys, and perished for the free ? 

Clew, clew up, fore and aft ! keep away ! 
IJow the vulture bird of death, in its black and viewless form, 

Hovered sure o'er the clamors of his prey, 
While through all their dripping shrouds yelled the spirit of the storm ! 
Bear a hand ! 

Now our reefs ! brace the yards ! lively there ! 
O, no more to homeward breeze shall her swelling bosom spread, 

But Love's expectant eye bid Despair 
Set her raven watch eternal o'er the wreck in ocean's bed, 

Board your tacks ! cheerly, boys ! But for them, 
Their last evening gun is fired, their gale- ar iwn ; 

O'er their smoking deck no starry Hag shall stream ; 
They'll sail no more, they'll fight no more, for their gallant ship's gone 
down. Bear a hand ! 



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Spring Tooth Harrow, &c. 

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TEMPERANCE.— Wendell Phillifs. 

Some men look upon this temperance cause as whining bigotry, narrow 
asceticism, or a vulgar sentimentality, fit for little minds, weak women, and 
weaker men. On the contrary, I regard it as second only to one or two 
others of the primary reforms of this age, and for this reason, — every race 
has its peculiar temptation ; every clime has its specific sin. The tropics 
and tropical races are tempted to one form of sensuality; the colder and tem- 
perate regions, and our saxon blood, find their peculiar temptation in the 
stimulus of drink and food. 

In old old times, our heaven was a drunken revel; We relieve ourselves 
from the over-weariness of constant and exhausting toil by intoxication. 
Science has brought a cheap means of drunkenness within the reach of every 
individual. National prosperity and free institutions have put into the hands 
ol almost every workman the means of being drunk for a week, on the labor 
of two or three hours. With that blood and that temptation, we have adopted 
democratic institutions, where the law has no sanctions but the purpose and 
virtue of the masses. The statute-book rests not on bayonets, as in Europe, 
but on the hearts of the people. 

A drunken people can never be the basis of a free government. It is the 
corner-stone neither of virtue, prosperity, nor progress. To us, therefore, 
the title deeds of whose estates, and the safety of whose lives, depend upon 
the tranquillity of the streets, upon the virtue of the masses, the presence of 
any vice which brutalizes the average mass of mankind and tends to make it 
more readily the tool of intriguing and corrupt leaders, is necessarily a stab 
at the very life of the nation. Against such a vice is marshaled the temper- 
ance reformation. 

That my sketch is no fancy picture, every 7 one of you knows. Every one 
of you can glance back over your own path, and count many and many a 
one among those who started from the goal at your side, with equal energy, 
and perhaps greater promise, who has found a drunkard's grave long before 
this. The brightness of the bar, the ornament of the pulpit, the hope and 
blessing and stay of many a family — you know, every one of you who has 
reached middle life, how often on your path has been set up the warning, 
" Fallen before the temptations of the streets ! " Hardly one house in this 
city, whether it be full 1 and warm with all the luxury of wealth, or whether it 
find hard, cold maintenance &y the most earnest economy, no matter which, 
—hardly a house that does not count among sons or nephews some victim of 
this vice. The skeleton of this warning sits at every board. Like all other 
ippetites, this finds resolution weak when set against the constant presence 
Df temptation. 



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21 

HAMLET'S SOLILOQUY. 

SHAKSPEARE. 

Now I am alone, (c. ) 

Oh, what a rogue and peasant slave am I. 

Is it not monstrous, that this player here, 

But in a fiction, in a dream of passion, 

Could force his soul so to his own conceit, 

That, from her working, all his visage wanned: 

Tears in his eyes, distraction in's aspect, 

A broken voice, and his -whole function suiting 

With forms to his conceit ? And all for nothing ? 

For Hecuba ! 

What's Hecuba to him, or he to Hecuba, 

That he should weep for her ? What would he do, 

Had he the motive and the cue for passion, 

That I have ? He would drown the stage with tears 

And cleave the general ear with horrid speech ; 

Make mad the guilty, and appal the free, 

Confound the ignorant, and amaze, indeed, 

The very faculties of eyes and ears. 

Yet I, 

A dull and muddy-mettled rascal, peak, 

Like John a-dreams, unpregnant of my cause, 

And can say nothing ; no, not for a king, 

Upon whose property, and most dear life, 

A damned defeat was made. Am I a coward? 

Who calls me villian ? breaks my pate across ? 

Plucks off my beard, and blows it in my "face ? 

Tweaks me by the nose ? gives me the lie i' the throat, 

As deep as to the lungs ? Who does me this ? 

Ha! 

Why, I should take it : for it cannot be, 

But I am pigeon-liver ed, and lack gall 

To make oppression bitter; or, ere this, 

I should have fatted all the region kites 

With this slave's offal : Bloody, bawdy villian ! 

Remorseless, treacherous, lecherous, landless villain ! 

Why, what an ass am I ?. This is most brave; 

That I, the son of a dear father murdered, 



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Prompted to my revenge by heaven and hell, 
Must, like a whelp, unpack my heart with words, 
And fall a cursing like a very drab, 
A scullicn i 

Fie upon t ! foh ! About my brains ! Humph ! I have heard, 
That guilty creatines, sitting at a play, 
Have, by the very cunning of the scene, 
Been struck, so to the soul, that presently 
.They have proclaimed their malefactions ; 
For murder, though it have no tongue, will speak 
With most miraculous organ. I'll have these players 
Play some thing like the murder of my father, 
Before mine uncle : I'll observe his looks ; 
I'll tent him to the quick ; if he do blench, 
I know my course. The spirit that I have seen, 
May be a devil : and the devil hath power 
To assume a pleasing shape : yea, and, perhaps, 
Out of my weakness, and my melancholy, 
(As he is very potent with such spirits,') 
Abuses me to damn me : 111 have grounds 
More relative than this : The play's the thing, 
Wherein I'll catch the conscience of the king. 



A MYSTERIOUS DUEL. 

The following incoherent account of a duel was furnished to Harper's Weekly, by a correspondent 
if that journal. 

A duel was lately fought in Texas by Alexander Shott and John S. Nott. 
Nott was shot, and Shott was not. In this case it is better to be Shott than 
Nott. There was a rumor that Nott was not shot, and Shott avows that he 
shot Nott, which proves either that the shot Shott shot at Nott was not shot, 
or that Nott was shot notwithstanding. Circumstantial evidence is not al- 
ways good. It may be made to appear on trial that the shot Shott shot shot 
Nott or, as accidents with fire-arms are frequent, it may be possible that the, 
shot Shott shot shot Shott himself, when the whole affair would resolve itself 
into its original elements, and Shott would be shot, and Nott would be not 
We think, however, that the shot Shott shot shot not Shott, but Nott ; any- 
way, it is hard to tell who was shot 



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2 5 

WHAT TIME IS IT? 

What time is it ? 
Time to do well ; 

Time to live better ; 
Give up that grudge ; 
Answer that letter ; 
Speak that kind word, to sweeten a sorrow ; 
Do that good deed you would leave till to-morrow. 
Time to try hard 

In that new situation ; 
Time to build up on 
A solid foundation. 
Giving up needlessly changing and drifting ; 
Leaving the quicksands that ever are shifting. 

What time is it ? 
Time to be thrifty; 

Farmers take warning — 
Plough in the springtime; 
Sow in the morning; 
Spring rain is coming, zephyrs are blowing ; 
Heaven will attend to the quickening and growing. 
Time to count cost ; 
Lessen expenses ; 
Time to look well 

To the gates and the fences : 
Making and mending, as good workers should ; 
Shutting out evil and keeping the good. 

What time is it ? 
Time to be earnest, 

Laying up treasure ; 
Time to be thoughtful, 
Choosing true pleasure ; 
Loving stern justice — of truth being fond ; 
Making your word just as good as your bond. 
Time to be happy, doing your best : 
Time to be trustful, Leaving the rest ; 
Knowing in whatever country or clime, 
Ne'er can we call back one minute of time. 



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27 
THE CHAMPION SNORER. 

It was in the Cedar Rapids sleeper. Outside it was dark as the inside of 
an ink-bottle. In the sleeping-car the people slept. 

Or tried it. 

Some of them slept, like Christian men and women, peacefully and sweetly 
and quietly. 

Others slept like demons, malignantly, hideously, fiendishly, as though it 
was their mission to keep everybody else awake. 

Of these the man in lower number three was the "boss." When it came 
to the square snore with variations, you wanted to count "lower three" in. 
With a full hand and a pocket full of rocks. 

We never heard anything snore like him. It was the- most systematic 
snoring that ever was done, even on one of those tournaments of snoring, a 
sleeping-car. He didn't begin as soon as the lamps were turned down and 
everybody was in bed. Oh, no ! There was more cold-blooded diabolism 
in his system than that. He waited until everybody had had a little taste of 
sleep, just to see how good and pleasant it was, and then he broke in on their 
slumbers like a winged, breathing demon, and they never knew what peace 
was again that night. 

He started out with a terrific " 

" Gn-r-r-r-t ! " 

That opened every eye in the car. We all hoped it was an accident, how- 
ever, and trusting that he wouldn't do it again, we forgave him. Then he 
blasted our hopes and curdled the sweet serenity of our forgiveness by a long- 
drawn 

"G-a-h-h-h-hah!" 

That sounded too much like business to be accidental. Then every head 
in that sleepless sleeper was held of! the pillow for a minute, waiting, in 
breathless suspense, to hear the worst, and the sleeper in "lower three" 
went on, in long-drawn, regular cadences, that indicated good staying qual- 
ities. 

" Gwa-a-ah ! Gwa-a-ah ! Gahwahwah ! Gahwahwah ! Gahwa-a-a-ah ! " 

Evidently it was going to last all night, and the weary heads dropped back 
on the sleepless pillows, and the swearing began. It mumbled along in low, 
muttering tones, like the distant echoes ot a profane thunder-storm. Pretty 
soon " lower three " gave us a little variation. He shot off a spiteful 

' ' Gwook ! " 

Which sounded as though his nose had got mad at him and was going to 



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COLORED SILKS, DENIENS, GIMPS, 

SATINS, DUCKS, BUTTONS, 

MOIRES, SHIRTINGS, LACES, 

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strike. Then there was a pause, and we began to hope he had either -wak- 
ened from sleep or strangled to death, nobody cared very particularly which. 
But he soon disappointed everybody with a gutteral 

" Gurrooch ! " 

Then he paused again for breath, and when he had accumulated enough 
for his purpose he resumed business with a stentorious 

" Kowpff ! " 

That nearly shot the roof off the car. Then he went on playing such fan- 
tastic tricks with his nose, and breaking things, that would make the immor- 
tal gods weep if they did but hear him. It seemed a matter incredible. It 
seemed an utter preposterous impossibility that any human being could make 
the monstrous, hideous noises with its breathing machine that the fellow in 
"lower three" was making with his. He ran through all the ranges of the 
nasal gamut: he went up and down a very chromatic scale of snores; he ran 
through intricate and fearful variations, until it seemed that his nose must be 
out of joint in a thousand places. All the night through he told his story. 

" Gawoh ! gurrah ! gu-r-r-r ! kowpff! gawah-wah ! gawah-hah ! 
gwock ! gwarrt ! gwah-h-h-11 1 whoof ! ;; 

Just as the other passengers: had consulted together how they might slay 
him, morning dawned, and "lower number three" awoke. Everybody 
watched the curtain to see what manner of man it was that had made that 
beautiful sleeping-car a pandemonium. Presently the toilet was completed, 
the curtains parted, and " lower number three " stood revealed. 

Great heavens ! It was a fair young girl, with golden hair, and timid, 
pleading eyes, like a hunted fawn's ! 



THE HEN.-A BOY'S COMPOSITION. 

"Hens is curious animals. They don't have no nose, nor no teeth, nor 
nor ears. They swallow their wittles whole, and chaw it up in their crops 
inside of em. The outside of hens is generally put into pillers and made 
into feather-dusters. The inside of a hen is sometimes filled up with mar- 
bles and shirt-buttons and sich. A hen is very much smaller than a good 
many other animals, but they'll dig up more tomato-plants than anything 
that ain't a hen. Hens is very useful to lay eggs for plum-pudding. Bet 
yer life I like plum-pudding. Skinny Bates eat so much plum-pudding 
once that it set him inter the coilery. Hens has got wings and can fly when 
they are scart. I cut my Uncle William's hen's neck off with a hatchet and 
it scart her to death. Hens sometimes makes very fine spring chickens. " 



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No. 40 Court Street. 



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3' 
THE WATER MILL. 

D. C. McCALLTJJl 

Oh ! listen to the water-mill, through all the live-long day, 
As the clicking of the wheels wears hour by hour away; 
How languidly the autumn wind doth stir the withered leaves, 
As on the field the reapers sing, while binding up the sheaves ! 
A solemn proverb strikes my mind, and as a spell is cast, 
" The mill will never grind again with water that is past." 

Soft summer winds revive no more leaves strewn o'er earth and main, 

The sickle never more will reap the yellow garnered grain; 

The rippling stream flows ever on, aye tranquil, deep and still, 

But never glideth back again to busy water-mill. 

The solemn proverb speaks to all, with meaning deep and vast, 

" The mill will never grind again with water that is past." 

Oh ! clasp the proverb to thy soul, dear loving heart and true, 
For golden years are fleeting by, and youth is passing too; 
Ah ! learn to make the most of life, nor lose one happy day, 
For time will ne'er return sweet joys neglected, thrown away ; 
Nor leave one tender word unsaid, thy kindness sow broadcast — 
"The mill will never grind again with water that is past." 

Oh ! the wasted hours of life, that have swiftly drifted by, 
Alas ! the good we might have done, all gone without a sigh ; 
Love that we might once have saved by a single kindly word, 
Thoughts conceived, but ne'er expressed, perishing unpenned, unheard 
Oh ! take the lesson to thy soul, forever clasp it fast, 
"The mill will never grind again with water that is past." 

Work on while yet the sun doth shine, thou man of strength and will, 
The streamlet ne'er doth useless glide by clicking water-mill ; 
Nor wait until to-morrow's light beams brightly on thy way, 
For all that thou canst call thine own lies in the phrase to-day; 
Possessions, power and blooming health must all be lost at last — 
'■ ' The mill will never grind again with water that is past. " 

Oh ! love thy God and fellow man, thyself consider last, 
For come it will when thou must scan dark errors of the past ; 
Soon will this fight of life be o'er, and earth recede from view, 
And heaven in all its glory shine, where all is pure and true. 
Ah ! then thou It see more clearly still the proverb deep and vast, 
"The mill will never grind again with water that is past;" 



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33 
HOW "SOCKERY" SET A HEX. 

From the " Poultry Monthly . " Anon. 

I dell you all apout vot dook blace mit me lasht summer : you knew— 
oder ufyou dond know, den I dells you — dot Katrina (dot is mine vrow) 
and me. ve keep some shickens for a long dime ago. un von tay she sait co 
me : "Sockery," dor is mein name/) iC vy dond you put some aigs unter 
dot old piue hen shickens: I dink she vanrs to sate." •'Veil.'* I sait, "mep- 
pe I eu-ss I vill. " So I bicked oud some ufdebest aigs, und dook em oud 
do de parn fere de olt hen make her nesht in le side uf de haymow, pond 
fife six veer up. Now you see I nerer vas ferry ; ig up und town. but I vas 
booty pig all de vay arount in de mittle. so I koodn't reach up dill I vent 
got a parrel do stant on. Veil, I klimet me on de parrel, und ven my 
hed rise up py de ire-;::, f :t olt hen she gif me such a : i :k dot my nose runs 
all ofter my face mit plood : und ven I todge pack, dot plasted olt [ 
her preak. und I vent town kershlam. Py cholly, T didn't tink I kood go 
insite a parrel pefore : put dere I vos. und I fit so lite dot I kc : fii't git me 
oud eftery way. My vest vos bushed vay up unter my arm-holes. Ven I 
fount I vos dite shtuck. I holier. "Katrina ! Katrina 1'" Und ven she koom 
una see me shtuck in de parrel up :; my : m- }les, mit my race all plood 
und aigs. py cholly. she chust lait town on :1c hay. una laft, und laft. till I 
got so mat I sait : "Vot you lay dere und laf like a olt vool. eh ? Vy dond 
you koom bull me oud ? " Und den she set up und sait : "Oh. vipe or! 
your chin, una bull your fest town." Den she lait back und laft like she vood 
shblit herself more as ever. Mat as I vas. I tough: to myself. Katrina. she 
sbeak English booty goot; but I only sait, mit my greatest dignitude: •' "Kat- 
rina. vill you bull me oud das parrel r " Und she see dot I look booty red. 
und she sait : " Of course I vill, Sockery. " Den she lait me und de parrel 
town on our site, und I dook holt de door-sill, und Katrina she bull on de 
parrel ; but de first bull she mate I yellet: " Donnerund blitzen ! shtop dat. 
by golly : dere is nails in de parrel!" You see de uails bent town ven I vent 
in. but ven I koom oud they shtick in me ah de vay rount Veil, to make 
a short shtory long, I told Katrina to go und dell naypor Hansman to pring 
a saw und saw me dis parrel off. Veil, he koom und he like :: shblit him- 
self mit laf, too: but he roll me ofer. und saw de parrel all de vay arount off, 
und I get up mit half a parrel arount my vaist Den Katrina she say : 
''Sockery. vait a little till I get a battern of dot new oferskirt you haf on." 
But I didn't sait a vort. 1 shust got a nife, und vittle de hoops off, und 
shling dot confountet olt parrel in ie voot ;ae. 



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Pimepy ven I koom in de house, Katrina she sait. so soft l'ke: u Sockery, 
dond you goin' to but some aigs unter dot olt plue hen ? " Den I sait, in 
my deepest woice : "Katrina, uf you efer say dot to me again I'll git a pill 
from you, so help me chiminy cracious ! '" und I dell you she didn't say dot 
any more. Veil, ven I step on a parrel now. I dond step on it — I git a pox. 



THE CLOSING- SCENE. 

T. BUCHANAN READ. 

Within this sober realm of leaflless trees. 

The russet year inhaled the dreamy air, 
Like some tanned reaper in his hour of ease, 

When all the fields are lying brown and bare. 
The gray barns looking from their hazy hills 

O'er the dim waters widening in the vales, 
Sent down the air a greeting to the mills, 

On the dull thunder of alternate flails. 
All sights were mellowed and all sounds subdued, 

The hills seemed further and the streams sang low; 
As in a dream the distant woodman hewed 

His winter log with many a muffled blow. 
The embattled forests, erewhile armed in gold, 

Their banners bright with every martial hue, 
Now stood, like some sad beaten host of old, 

Withdrawn afar in Time's remotest blue. 
On slumberous wings the vulture tried his flight, 

The dove scarce heard his sighing mate's complaint, 
And, like a star slow drowning in the light, 

The village church-vane seemed to pale and faint 
The sentinel cock upon the hillside crew — 

Crew thrice, and all was stiller than before — 
Silent till some replying wanderer blew 

His alien horn, and then was heard no more. 
Where erst the jay within the elm's tail crest 

Made garrulous trouble round the unfledged young; 
And where the oriole hung her swaying nest 

By every light wind like a censer swung ; 
Where sang the noisy masons of the eaves, 

The busy swallows circling ever near, 
Foreboding, as the rustic mind believei, 

An early harvest and a plenteous year ; 



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Ladies will find by using it for Toilet purposes that it allays all irritation 
of the skin in cold weather. It is exceedingly bland and soothing, exquisite 
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For Chilblains, Chapped Skin, Frosted Limbs, it is a specific. 

This preparation is put up in three stvles — in COLLAPSABLE TUBES, 
25 cents; in TWO OUNCE BOTTLES, 25 cents; in SOLID FORM, in 
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Sole Proprietors, OTIS BROTHERS, Chemists, 

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Where every bird which charmed the vernal feast 

Shook the sweet slumber from its wings at morn, 
To warn the reapers of the rosy east — 

All now was song] ess, empty and forlorn. 
Alone from out the stubble piped the quail, 

And croaked the crow through all the dreamy gloom; 
Alone the pheasant, drumming in the vale, 

?>Iade echo to the distant cottage loom. 
There was no bud, no bloom upon the bowers; 

The spiders wove their thin shrouds night by night; 
The thistle-down, the only ghost of flowers, 

Sailed slowly by, passed noiseless out of sight, 
Amid all this, in this most cheerless air, 

And where the woodbine sheds upon the porch 
Its crimson leaves, as if the year stood there 

Firing the floor with his inverted torch — 
Amid all this, the centre of the scene, 

The white-haired matron, with monotonous tread, 
Plied her swift wheel, and with her joyless mien 

Sat like a Fate, and watched the flying thread. 
She had known Sorrow. He had walked with her, 

Oft supped, and broke with her the ashen crust; 
And in the dead leaves still she heard the stir 

Of his black mantle trailing in the dust. 
While yet her cheek was bright with summer bloom, 

Her country summoned, and she gave her all; 
And twice War bowed to her his sable plume — 

Re-gave the swords to rust upon her wall. 
Re-gave the swords — but not the hand that drew, 

And struck for liberty the dying blow; 
Nor him who, to his sire and country true, 

Fell, 'mid the ranks of the invading foe. 
Long, but not loud, the droning wheel went on, 

Like the low murmur of a hive at noon; 
Long, but not loud, the memory of the gone 

Breathed through her lips a sad and tremulous tune. 
At last the thread was snapped — her head was bowed ; 

Life dropped the distaff through his hands serene ; 
And loving neighbors smoothed her careful shroud — 

While Death and Winter closed the autumn scene. 



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111 & 113 Court Street, Binghamton, N. Y. 

IRA W. WOODWORTH, Prop. 



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CHARLES W, ADAMS, 

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Office at VETERINARY INFIRMARY, near Craudall House, 

P. O. A Mr ess, BINGHAMTON, N. Y. 
TEACHER OF 



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Pianos* 

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These are the best instruments made and sold at factory prices. Cheaper 
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No. 53 CHENANGO ST., BINGHAMTON, N.Y. 



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THE CBEED3 OF THE BELLS. 

GEORGE W. BUNGAY 

How sweet the chime of the Sabbath bells ! 
Each one its creed in music tells, 
In tones that float upon the air, 
As soft as song, as pure as prayer ; 
And I will put in simple rhyme 
The language of the golden chime ; 
My happy heart with rapture swells 
Responsive to the bells,, sweet bells. 

"In deeds of love excel ! excel ! '" 
Chimed out from ivied towers a bell : 
1 ' This is the church not built on sands. 
Emblem of one not built with hands : 
Its forms and sacred rights revere, 
Come worship here ! come worship here I 
In rituals and (kith excel ! " 
Chimed out the Episcopalian bell. 

" Oh, heed the ancient landsmarks well I " 

In solemn tones exclaimed a bell ; 
"No progress made by mortal man 
Can chaoige the just, eternal plan : 
With God there can be nothing new ; 
Ignore the false, embrace the true. 
While all is well ! is well ! is well ! " 
Pealed out the good old Dutch church belL 

" Ye purifying waters swell ! " 

In mellow tones rang out a bell ; 

''Though faith alone in Christ can save, 
Man must be plunged beneath the wave. 
To show the world unfaltering faith 
In what the Sacred Scriptures saith : 
Oh. swell ! ye rising waters, swell ! n 
Pealed out the clear-toned Baptist bell. 

" Not faith alone, but works as well, 

Must test the soul ! " said a soft bell ; 



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"Come here and cast aside your load, 
And work your way along the road, 
With faith in God, and faith in man, • 
And hope in Christ, where hope began ; 
Do well ! do well ! do well ! do well ! " 
Rang out the Unitarian bell. 

"Farewell! farewell! base world, farewell! 1 
In touching tones exclaims a bell ; 
"Life is a boon, to mortals given 
To fit the soul for bliss in heaven ; 
Do not invoke the avenging rod, 
Come here and learn the way to God ; 
Say to the world, Farewell ! farewell ! " 
Pealed forth the Presbyterian bell. 

"To all, the truth we tell ! we tell ! " 
Shouted in ecstacies a bell ; 
" Come, all ye weary wanderers, see ! 
Our Lord has made salvation free ! 
Repent, believe, have faith, and then 
Be saved, and praise the Lord, Amen ! 
Salvation's free, we tell ! we tell ! " 
Shouted the Methodistic bell. 



A G-ENTLEMAN. 



Tis he whose every thought and deed 
By rule of virtue moves ; [speak 

Whose generous tongue disdains to 
The thing his heart disproves. 

Who never did a slander forge, 
His neighbor's fame to wound ; 

Nor hearken to a false report, 
By malice whispered round. 



Who vice, in all its pomp and power. 
Can treat with just neglect ; 

And piety, though clothed in rags, 
Religiously respect. 

Who to his plighted word and truth 

Has ever firmly stood ; 
And though he promise to his loss, 

He makes his promise good. 



Whose soul in usury disdains 
His treasures to employ ; 

Whom no rewards can ever bribe 
The guiltless to destroy. 



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Wo, 113 COURT STREET, 

Has just returned from New York with as beautiful a line of 



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as was ever brought to this city. Having a thorough knowledge of the business from a 

long experience, I believe I can give you as good bargains and as good 

Goods as can be found elsewhere. 



MRS. LOVINI-A HINDS, 

Having rented part of the Cottage Store, (next to Crandall House,) and re-stocked it 
with a complete line of 

Fancy and Ladies' Furnishing Goods, Worsteds, 

CREWELS, &c. 
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The old stock will be disposed of at cost to make room for the new. 
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P. O. Box 1124, BINGHAMTON, N. Y, 



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prices so low as to be simply marvellous: Dont call here first, but every- 
where else first, and then call and test our sincerity, and know of yourselves 
that our prices are really lower than the lowest. 

Good Dictionaries, of more than 30,000 words, locts. 
Writing Paper, as good as the best, at 3^cts. a quire 
And everything else in like proportion. 



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SNYDER'S NOSE. 

Snyder kept a beer-saloon some years ago "over the Rhine.* 1 Snyder 
was a ponderous Teuton of very irascible temper — "sudden and quick in a 
quarrel'"'' — get mad in a minute. Nevertheless his saloon was a great resort 
ior "the boys" — partly because of the excellence of his beer and partly be- 
cause they liked to chafe "old Snyder. '" as they called him: for. although 
his bark was terrific, experience had taught them that he wouldn't bite. 

One day Snyder was missing : and it was explained by his "frail,/* who 
"jerked" the beer that day, that he had "gone out fishing mit der povs. " 
The next day one of the boys, who was particularly fond of "'roasting'"'' old 
Snyder, dropped in to get a glass of beer, and discovered Snyder's nose, 
which was a big one at any time, swollen and blistered by the sun. until it 
looked like a dead-ripe tomato. 

" Why. Snyder, what's the matter with your nose? " said the caller. 

"I peen out fishing mit der poys." replied Snyder, laying his finger ten- 
derly against his proboscis : i ' the sun it pesh hot like ash never vas, und I 
purns my nose. Nice nose, don't it ? " And Snyder viewed it with a 
of comical sadness in the little mirror back of his bar. It entered at once 
into the head of the mischievous fellow in front of the bar to play a joke up- 
on Snyder ; so he went out and collected half a dozen of his comrades, with 
whom he arranged that thev should drop in at the saloon one after another, 
and ask Snyder, "What's the matter with that nose?'" to see how long he 
would stand it. The man who put up the job went in first with a compan- 
ion, and seating themselves at a table called for beer. Snyder brought it to 
them, and the new-comer exclaimed as he saw him 3 "Snyder, what's the 
matter with your nose : " 

"I yust dell your friend here I peen out fishin' mit der poys, unt de sun 
he purnt 'em — zwei lager- — den cents — all right 

Another boy rushes in. "Halloo, boys, your'e ahead of me this time : 
s'pose I'm in, though. Here. Snyder, bring me a glass of lager and a pret " 
— (^appears to catch a sudden glimpse of Snyder's nose, looks wonderingly a 
moment and then bursts out laughing) — "ha! ha! ha! Why, Snyder — 
ha ! ha ! — what's the matter with that nose ? " 

Snyder, of course, can't see any fun in having a burnt nose or having it 
laughed it : and he says, in a tone sternly emphatic : 

" I peen out fishin' mit der poys, unt de sun it yust ash hot ash blazes. 
unt I purnt my nose : dat ish all right. " 

Another tormentor comes in, and insists on " setting em up " for the 



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whole house. "Snyder," says he, "fill up the boys' glasses, and take a 
drink yourse — ho ! ho ! ho ! ho ! ha ! ha ! ha ! Snyder, wha — ha ! ha ! — 
what's the matter with that nose?" 

Snyder's brow darkens with wrath by this time, and his voice grows deep- 
er and sterner : 

"I peen out fishin' mit der poys on the Leedle Miami. De sun pese hot 
like ash — vel, I purn my pugle. Now that is more vot I don't got to say. 
Vot gindo peseness? Dat ish all right; I purn my own nose, don't it? 

" Burn your nose — burn all the hair off your head, for what I care ; you 
needn't get mad about it. " 

It was evident that Snyder wouldn't 'stand more than one more tweak of that 
-nose ; for he was tramping about behind his bar, and growling like an ex- 
asperated old bear in his cage. Another one of his tormentors walks in. 
Some one sings out to him, " Have a glass of beer, Billy ? " 

"Don't care about any beer,'' says Billy, "but, Snyder, you may give me 
one of your best ciga — Ha-a-a ! ha ! ha ! ha ! ho ! ho ! ho ! he ! he ! he ! ah- 
h-h-ha ! ha! ha! Why — why- — Snyder — who — who — ha-ha! ha! what's the 
matter with that nose ? 

Snyder was absolutely fearful to behold by this time ; his face was purple 
with rage, all except his nose, which glowed like a ball of fire. Leaning his 
ponderous figure far over the bar, and raising his arm aloft to emphasize his 
words with it, he fairly roared : 

' ' I peen out fishin' mit ter poys. The sun it pese hot like ash never was. 
I purnt my nose. Now you no like dose nose, you yust take dose noseunt 
Mi-wr-wr- wring your mean American finger mit em. That's the kind o' 
man vot I am." And Snyder was right. 



TOM. 

CONSTANCE FENLMORE WOOLSON 

Yes, Tom's the best fellow that ever you knew. 

Just listen to this : 
When the old mill took fire, and the flooring fell through. 
And I with it, helpless, there, full in my view. 
What do you think my eyes saw through the fire, 
That crept along, crept ah-ng, n'gher and nigher, 
But Robin, my baby boy. laughing to see 
The shining ! He must have come there after me, 
Toddled alone from the cottage without 



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Any one's missing him. Then, what a shout — 

Oh, how I shouted, ' ' For Heaven's sake, men, 

Save Little Robin !" Again and again 

They tried, but the fire held them back like a walL 

I could hear them go at it, and at it, and call, 

li Never mind, baby, sit still like a man, 

We're coming to get you as fast as we can." 

They could not see him, but I could; he sat 

Still on a beam, his little straw hat 

Carefully placed by his side, and his eyes 

Stared at the flame with a baby's surprise, 

Calm and unconscious as nearer it crept. 

The roar of the fire up above must have kept 

The sound of his mother's voice shrieking his name 

From reaching the child. But / heard it. It came 

Again and again — O God, what a cry ! 

The axes went faster, I saw the sparks fly 

Where the men worked like tigers, nor minded the heat 

That scorched them — when, suddenly, there at their feet 

The great beams leaned in — they saw him, then, crash, 

Down came the wall ! The men made a dash — 

Jumped to get out of the way — and I thought 

* 'All's up with poor little Robin," and brought 

Slowly the arm that was least hurt to hide 

The sight of the child there, when swift, at my side, 

Some one rushed by, and went right through the flame 

Straight as a dart — caught the child — and then came 

Back with him — choking and crying, but — saved ! 

Saved safe and sound ! Oh, how the men raved , 

Shouted, and cried, and hurrahed ! Then they all 

Rushed at the work again, lest the back wall 

Where I was lying, away from the fire, 

Should fall in and bury me. Oh, you'd admire 

To see Robin now; he's as bright as a dime, 

Deep in some mischief, too, most of the time ; 

Tom, it was, saved him. Now isn't it true, 

Tom's the best fellow that ever you knew ? 

There's Robin now — see, he's strong as a log — 

And there comes Tom too — 

Yes, Tom was our dog. 



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Our stock is larger and more complete than ever before. 
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WORSTED, CASSIMEKE, AND FLANNEL SUITS, 

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finest goods, 

FIT AND LOOK LIKE CUSTOM GARMENTS. 

We have an elegant line of the celebrated 

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Our stock is the largest and finest in the city, comprising 
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you can order your clothing by mail if you cannot leave 
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